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ILO experts discuss employment of disabled persons in Kyrgyzstan

On January 21, ILO Moscow experts and State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Social Development Baktybek Zhekshenov discussed employment of disabled persons within the framework of the ILO project “From the crisis towards decent and safe jobs”...

Applying the G20 Training Strategy: Partnership of the ILO and the Russian Federation - (Midterm Evaluation Summary)

Social Finance Working Paper #57: Microfinance and job creation

A social performance assessment of a new loan delivery mechanism, Bai Tushum Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan to interview 6,000 households within national child labour survey

Kyrgyzstan’s National Statistics Committee will hold a child labour survey within the framework of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Central Asia, interviewing 6,000 households. The survey’s results...

Youth employment in the CIS discussed in St Petersburg

Within the framework of the project “Partnerships for Youth Employment Project in the CIS”, a Peer Review Conference was conducted in St Petersburg on 13 – 17 October. The project is implemented by the ILO Moscow Office in partnership with Russian...

Combating Child Labour in Central Asia. Commitment becomes Action

The ILO-IPEC Project “Combating Child Labour in Central Asia. Commitment becomes Action” organized two sub-regional workshops for tripartite participants from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Opportunities for upgrading training programmes in Tajikistan’s education system

n October 7, Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment of Population hosted a roundtable meeting to discuss opportunities for upgrading training programmes and curricula in Tajikistan’s education system.

COOP NEWS UPDATE

This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between April and August, 2014.

Fair WIND for safety (WIND programme in Kyrgyzstan)

The Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development (WIND) is the ILO’s training programme that provides practical responses to the special problems of safety and health in agriculture. WIND applies a participatory and action-oriented training...

My Skills, My Future

The dream of many young people is to have higher education. Others believe the best jobs are out of the country. Too few look at the real opportunities in the country. But it is not easy, as ILO's school-to-work transition surveys reveals that it...

Combating Child Labour in Central Asia

There is a deep tradition of putting children to work in Central Asia. Across the region, hundreds of thousands of children can be found working in the markets, in agriculture and in dangerous, unsafe conditions. But a new initiative in three...

Working Against Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is one of the least developed countries in Central Asia. Poverty is widespread and there is constant migration in search of work, primarily in agriculture. There is also a deep tradition of child labour. But a new initiative to get...

A frank dialogue in an "Open Space"

In June 2009 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the International Labour Organization (ILO) organized a two-day "Open Space" session in which young women and young men, employed, unemployed, with different education, met with policy-makers to discuss most...

ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

Tackling Child Labour in Central Asia

In Central Asia, a program supported by the ILO is bringing government, trade unions and employers together to successfully fight the worst forms of child labour.

Cooperation priorities discussed in Bishkek

On September 8-9, Ms Dimitrina Dimitrova, Director of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, visited Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to meet with representatives of the government, trade unions and...

Kyrgyzstan’s National Statistics Committee to monitor worst forms of child labour

Pursuing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Kyrgyzstan’s National Statistics Committee would collect statistics data on the worst forms of child labour, the committee’s press service said on August 29.

Trade unions’ role in ensuring occupational safety and health at railways of CIS and Baltic states – seminar in Astana

On July 9, the first joint seminar for trade unions of railway workers from CIS and Baltic states ended its work in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. It focused on trade unions’ role in ensuring occupational safety and health and traffic safety at...

Kyrgyz Social Fund: Pensions for June 2014 fully funded

Pensions in the Kyrgyz Republic were fully funded for June 2014. The press office of the Social Fund reports.

Kyrgyzstan makes further efforts to stop child labour

1 July 2014. On July 1, Bishkek hosted a roundtable meeting focusing on stronger inter-ministerial coordination and unification of efforts in eliminating the worst forms of child labour.

Russia and Kyrgyzstan agree to transfer pensions of migrant workers according to principle of proportionality

This was announced today at the roundtable "Pension reform: key conclusions and recommendations", the representatives of the Social Fund informed.